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Word: nicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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MacDonald and defenseman Nick Carone each score two goals. The Crimson improves its league average to 6.9 goals per game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polishing the Rust: Icemen Capture National Title | 6/8/1889 | See Source »

...organization in October, 1885, up to its final victory over the Yale and Columbia freshmen at New London last summer. It is brightly and amusingly written from beginning to end. Little incidents are told of each man on the crew, and each one is given his own peculiar nick-name. The author gives a very interesting account, to begin with, of the organization of the crew. To quote his own words: "Forty men, more or less, the 'pride and flower' of the class, assembled in the gymnasium, afternoon upon afternoon, with beating hearts and anxious faces. Lean men, short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The '89 Crew-Book. | 3/12/1887 | See Source »

Harvard bets on her Nick and Samu...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/21/1885 | See Source »

...appellation by which Professor Richards is best known among Yale graduates and students presents an interesting study in the evolution of the nick-name. "Richards," of course, became "Dickey" and by a natural sequence "Dickey" became "Dickeybird," until the necessity for abbreviation has made "The Bird" the best known name for one of Yale's most popular and efficient instructors. [Modern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/29/1884 | See Source »

MEPHISTO. - Poetical for the Old Nick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPECTRE DEGREE. | 12/10/1880 | See Source »

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